title: Genetic diversity and abundance of flavobacterial proteorhodopsin in China seas.
abstract: Proteorhodopsin (PR) genes related to Flavobacteria were found to be highly diverse in the East and South China seas and displayed a distinct geographic pattern, which appeared to reflect cold versus warm adaptation when Global Oceanic Sampling database metagenomic data were included. Flavobacterial PR genes were more abundant offshore than nearshore, implying that inheritance of the PR gene could be important for Flavobacteria living in the oligotrophic environment.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
authors.forename: Meiru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Nianzhi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Jiao
mesh_terms: D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D002681:China; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D041965:Flavobacteriaceae / Q000235:genetics*; D014644:Genetic Variation; D005843:Geography; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D012243:Rhodopsin / Q000235:genetics*; D025604:Rhodopsins, Microbial; D012623:Seawater / Q000382:microbiology*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D025604:Rhodopsins, Microbial; C413548:proteorhodopsin; D012243:Rhodopsin